Bangalaru : Police in South Goa arrested a man for allegedly murdering his girlfriend, after the victim’s body was found in a forested area of Pratap Nagar. According to sources, the couple travelled to Goa to get married, but a dispute turned fatal as the girl was killed.
The suspect was identified as Sanjay Kevin M, 22, while the victim was Roshni Moses M, also 22. Both of them hailed from Karnataka’s North Bengaluru area and had come to Goa to get married. The couple had arrived in Goa recently, citing the police. Before their marriage plans, the couple engaged in a bitter dispute, which ended up in Sanjay killing Roshni and dumping her body in the forest.
Roshni’s body was found in the forest area of Pratap Nagar in South Goa on Monday and police confirmed that her throat had been slit. Meanwhile, Sanjay allegedly fled back to Bengaluru after committing the crime, but South Goa police launched a probe and traced him into the city. Sanjay was arrested in Bengaluru within 24 hours of the crime being discovered. “This murder was the result of a love affair, a marriage proposal and the dispute that arose from it,” said South Goa Superintendent of Police Tikam Singh Verma.
In an unrelated case, a 28-year-old man was arrested for allegedly murdering his girlfriend after she pressured him to marry her, and later buried her body in a bid to destroy evidence, police said on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Madhushree Angadi (26) from Narayanapura village in Gadag taluk. The accused, Satish Hiremath, also hails from the same village.
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